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"Then give me that pad and pencil" He rapidly dashed off a note to H

Fisbee:

"September 5th

"H FISBEE, "Editor 'Carlow Herald'

"Dear Sir: You have not acknowledged my letter of the 2d Septe ), or by the

alteration in the tenor of my columns which I requested, or by the

publication of the McCune papers which I directed In this I hold you

grossly at fault If you have a conscientious reason for refusing to carry

out my request it should have been communicated to me at once, as should

the fact--if such be the case--that you are a personal (or impersonal, if

you like) friend of Mr Rodney McCune Whatever the motive, ulterior or

otherwise, which prevents you fro my paper as I direct, I

should have been informed of it This is a matter vital to the interests

of our community, and you have hitherto shown yourself too alert in

accepting estion for ht esteem as at least honest and frank; your

course has been neither the one nor the other